Harumi Ueko

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Harumi Ueko

Artist Information

Name: Harumi Ueko (上高治巳)

Birthyear: 1965

Profile

Harumi Ueko is one of the first composers of the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series. He contributed to least one song for every game of the series up to GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2. He is well known for his jazz fusion songs.

Harumi was also a member of 亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾 (Anettai Maji-SKA Bakudan) alongside Hideyuki Ono and DokiDokiDokky, where he played the saxophone, trombone, and horns.

Outside of BEMANI, Harumi composed music for other KONAMI titles such as Ganbare Goemon, the SNES port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and the Silent Scope series.

Harumi retired from KONAMI on June 15th, 2012. He currently works as an independent sound engineer.

Trivia

Harumi's main alias, Jimmy Weckl, may be a reference to jazz drummer Dave Weckl. "Weckl" also might be an anglicisation of "Ueko".

Harumi has several songs in SEGA's maimai music game series. He has also appeared, alongside Hideyuki Ono, in the indie rhythm game nanobeat.